Funerary Vase (Krater), Dipylon Cemetery, or Dipylon Vase

Artist: Attributed to the Hirschfeld Workshop

Medium: Ceramic, 42” high

Date: c. 750–700 BCE, GEOMETRIC PERIOD

Source/Museum: Dipylon Cemetery, Athens / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Used as a grave marker near Athens

Mourners tearing hair with grief

Geometric patterns, shapes representing mourners (not realistic)

Note: no reference to afterlife (like on Egyptian funerary art)

Artist: n/a

Title: Corinthian Olpe (Pitcher)

Medium: Ceramic with black-figure decoration

Size: height 11 ½"

Date: c. 600 BCE Orientalizing Period

Source/Museum: Corinth / The British Museum, London

Significance:

•Black figure vase

•Shows Eastern/Oriental influence with motifs of imaginary animals, plant forms, from Near East, Asia Minor & Egypt

Artist: Exekias

Title: The Suicide of Ajax

Medium: Ceramic amphora with black-figure decoration, 27" high (69 cm)

Date: c. 540 BCE Archaic Period

Source/Museum: Château-Musée, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France

•Stunning composition with shape of figure echoing form of vase, balanced between uprights of shield & tree.

•Shows drama of moment when Ajax will throw himself on his sword.

•Black figure ceramic.

Artist: Euphronios (painter) and Euxitheos (potter)

Title: Death of Sarpedon

Ceramic calyx krater with red-figure decoration, 18" high

Date: c. 515 BCE, Archaic Period

Source/Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Euphronius best known red figure artist, illustrating a story from the Iliad, Sleep & Death carry dead Trojan warrior from battlefield

Balanced composition, rhythm of decorative bands echoing the shape of the body and Hermes, guide to the Underworld

Foreshorteing … such as Sarpedon’s left leg

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Treasury of the Siphnians, Delphi Sanctuary of Apollo, c. 530-525 BCE archaic period; filled with relief pedients, caryatids acting as columns, varying depth of relief.

Title: Anavysos Kouros

Medium: Marble with remnants of paint

Size: height 6'4" (1.93 m)

Date: c. 530 BCE - Archaic Period

Source/Museum: Cemetery at Anavysos, near Athens / National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Significance:

More naturalistic than New York Kouros (Standing Youth)…

Archaic style-wiglike hair, archaic smile, stiffly posed showing Egyptian influence

Male statues always nude (female Kore statues usually wore clothing)

Originally on a grave, inscription honoring fallen war hero killed by Ares the war god

Dying Warrior, artist unknown

Medium: Marble, about 6’long

Date: c. 500–490 BCE, Archaic Period..West pediment marked end of Archaic period, more into early classical, East pediment is more rigid sculptures

Source/Museum: Temple of Aphaia, Aegina (now located in Munich)

Set standard for pediment sculpture, twisted form turning in space, fitting corner of triangle

• Shows fragments reconstructed including the Dying Warrior

• Note the triangular composition

Kritian Boy, Marble, 3’10”, 480 BCE Early Classical, Kritios?, contrapossto, natural pose, lifelike. Found in Acropolis.

Marks beginning of Early Classical Period, transitioning away from rigid archaic poses and geometric shapes

Spear Bearer (doryphoros, Achilles)

Polykleitos, Roman Copy of orig. bronze 450 BCE

6’11”

Illustrated Polykleitos canon of proportions which included symmetria, relationship of weight bearing and non weight bearing leg

Dynamically balanced pose (spear is lost)

Riace Warrior,

Artist Unknown

High Classical period

460-450 BCE

Found in sea near Riace, Italy

Impossibly idealized musculature

Detailed glass eyes, silver teeth, copper lips

Face is of older man, body of idealized Greek athlete

(We saw these in Art Made the World, remember?)

Artist: Myron

Title: Discus Thrower (Diskobolos)

Medium: Marble

Size: height 5'11" (1.55 m)

Date: Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 450 BCE (classical period)

Source/Museum: National Museum, Rome

•Idealized Olympic athlete

•Balanced form

•Humanism philosophy

•Closed vs. open, curves vs. angles, moment of tension

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Flashcard image (Temple of Athena Nike)

Nike Adjusting Her Sandal,

Artist unknown

Marble, 3’6”, 410 BCE High Classical

Fragment of relief decoration from Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens

Temple was built amphiprostyle plan with porch at each end, Ionic style

Wings balance her pose

Virtuoso sculptor of the clingy drapery as Nike balances to adjust her shoe

Model of the Acropolis, 447-432 BCE - Recognize this area.

The Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens. Nw View, 447-432 BCE, Kalikrates & Iktinos

Proportions 4:9, balanced views, narrowing space of corner columns. Glorified Athens and Athena, masterpiece of sculpture/architecture, Marble. Pediment sculpture only survives in fragments. Independence, self confidence, pride. Inspired architecture worldwide, including 19th century US. Symbolizeds human ideals.

Erechtheion. View From The East. Porch of The Maidens At Left; North Porch Can Be Seen Through The Columns of The East Wall 421-406 BCE Acropolis, Athens

Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens.

Porch of the Maidens

420 BCE, CLASSICAL PERIOD

KNOWN FOR CARATYID COLUMNS in classical poses, closure symmetry and rhythm

Erected under Perikles building programs to revitalize Athens

Mythical location where Poseidon and Athena had a contest over who would rule Athens

Aphrodite of Knidos, Praxiteles

Marble, 6’8” high, (Roman copy)

350 BCE (Late Classical)

Presently located in Vatican museum, Rome

1st Greek female nude goddess

(other female nudes were courtesans, etc.)

Humanized mature woman, ready to bathe, everyday activity rather than idealized battle scene or athletic event.

Possibly merging Babylonian goddess Ishtar with Aphrodite, Ishtar was almost always shown Nude

Gradual acceptance of female nudes in Greek art

Temple of the Olympian Zeus, Athens

Corinthian columns

Built & rebuilt during 520 BCE to 132 CE

Dying Gallic Trumpeter (flashcard)

Epigonos? 220 bce

Sanctuary of Athena in Pergamon

Expressionism characteristic of Hellenistic art

Gauls were Celtic people conquered during this period

Roman copy from garden of Julius Caesar

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Original 2nd century BCE

Maybe Roman copy

Pergamene style - complex composition illustrating episode from Trojan War…

Laocon told Trojans to beware Greeks bearing gifts (Trojan Horse)

Gods retaliated….

Nike (Victory) of Samothrace

Marble, 8’ high

180 BCE Hellenestic Period

Located in Louvre, Paris

Pergamene style, very theatrical

Heavy wings balance forward thrust of body

Masterpiece with draperies, motion

Commemorates military victory at sea (landing on ship’s prow)

Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de Milo)

Marble, 150-100 BCE, Hellenestic

Artist unknown

Located at Louvre

Renewed interest in styles of Praxiteles and Lysippos,

heavier proportion of High Classical period but twisting perspective of Hellenestic period

Drapery falling off gives note of erotic tension